Weigh in

Loss: 400 grams
Total Loss: 22.2kgs
Current weight: 88.1kgs

YAY love that result after the 'not so great' weekend.
I have set myself a goal to lose 750g per week so week 1 hasn't gone to plan BUT I'm not concerned about it because I will make up for it next week.......no worries.
Plus this if the first week without the protein shakes everyday (sometimes twice a day), I think I've had about 3 all week so I'm happy that my eating hasn't gone totally haywire.

Didn't get to Hydro, I do have a couple of excuses but they are pathetic (couldn't find togs, girlfriend rang etc) so I have told myself I will go Thursday night even if there is a MAJOR EARTHQUAKE/FLOOD/*insert major reason*............

I need to get out my fake/rub on tan stuff that I got through Avon (bloody brilliant) as there seems to be heaps of people nice and brown and I am lilly white (not a great look) and with the weather getting nicer I think I could do with some colouring up.

Nothing else to chat about really so I'll sign off and get back on here when I think of something riverting to say.......LOL

Mini challenges

Right I have been thinking and I really don't have any short term goals as far as my weight goes so I decided to join Paulene's Spring 6 week Challenge and put down that I wanted to lose 3.5kgs in that time (0.6kgs per week), I did this last Friday.

But after thinking today, I realised that that isn't very challenging and I wanted to up the antie so I rang my girlfriend and asked her if I could borrow her new top for my Xmas 'do' which she said yes to. The only problem is that I tried it on last week and it was at least a size too small, I loved it that much that I went into Stax (where she got it from) and tried to get myself one but they didn't have a larger size (typical - it was the 1st time I had ever set foot into the shop) so I figure I will need to lose about 5 or 6kgs to fit into it and the work 'do' is usually the first week in November which gives me 7 or 8 weeks........stay with me people.

So I plan to lose 6kgs in 8 weeks which is 750g per week.......yep I reckon I can do that will a bit of planning.

I am NOT doing any exercise and this MUST change so I am going back to Hydro tomorrow night (twice a week) and riding my bike twice a week and my mate (the one with the top) has hand weights which she is going to lend me and show me some 'at home' exercises I can do twice a week which will give me 6 days of moving my butt for that top. Next time I go to her house, I will take a photo of it and give you a visual of what I am striving towards.

Great, good, glad I got that out there.

I am meeting Andrew after work so we can both get a new pair of runners because he has been unwell and has been told he has to do more exercise (golf doesn't count!) so he and his mate are going to start running of a night and I will do my exercise while he is doing that.........sorted!

The weekend that was

Friday I went and visited the beautiful Helena and I was blown away by how chipper she was. I got to see the fabulous new body (with a not so gorgeous body suit on it) and she looks fant-friggin-tastic!

I thought I'd better take a photo to show you all that she is alive and well (more than well!).





Headed to the Hen's Night and it was boring and horrible and the food sucked, I ended up getting home at 9.45pm (no really!). More photo's.






Saturday was soccer and then I had one of Reece's mates for the day, dropped him off at 4pm and ended up at my sisters for a couple of hours and then home with the boys for takeaway chinese.
Sunday dawned and the boys were excited because their Dad was coming home after 5 days in Te Araroa white baiting so we whipped round and had a clean up and then spent the morning outside in the sunshine.......lovely.
Andrew arrived home at 1pm and I got a break for a while because they were all over him.....again - lovely.
Had whitebait fritters for dinner and nothing else, 6 in all but everyone was bloody beautiful. He also brought home lots of crayfish which he loves, I can take them or leave them so I wasn't very excited about that.....LOL

Kids were exhausted and in bed by 6pm (yeah baby!!) so I sat up and read my book and he had a wee sleep on the couch while also watching some cop show.
Bed by 11pm and all is back to normal in my house this morning......ah nice.

Hen's Night........

........and I'm going to be sober - that makes a change.

I'm also the 'bride to be's' sober driver plus a few others which makes me smile.
I got her some boiled lollie willies....hehehe and a badge to wear announcing that she is the one getting hitched and about 8 other badges that say 'hen's party girls' which I will distribute once we get there. I also went and got her a beautiful pair of white lacy nickers.

I am going to pop in and see Helena on my way out as well because I am just busting to see how she is now she is at home.

Weekend is going to be quite hopefully, I have soccer in the morning but not much else planned which makes a change.

The last couple of days have seen me eating great and drinking loads of water.
My usual day consists of weight watchers cereal with yoghurt in the morning, vitaweats crackers for lunch with vegemite and some sort of meat and either salad or vege's for dinner. I find that I can be quite boring sometimes and think this might have something to do with why I had a blowout last weekend so I have decided to get my menu plans out again but revise them a bit because they had a lot of 'sheperd's pie' and 'lasagna' and stuff like that on them and I really must stay away from mince as it gives me wicked heartburn.

I had sushi for dinner and got the boys McDonald's so I wasn't feeling bloated or overfull (gotta love sushi) and then I jumped into bed early to watch a movie 'The Lake House' with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as I have been wanting to see it for ages and I certainly was NOT disappointed.....*sigh* I love those sorts of movies (romances or romantic comedies) and ).

Right that's it for me this week, catch ya all next Monday.

P.S. Happy Birthday M for Saturday and Chubbymum for Sunday *mwah*

Weigh in & Protein Shakes

Loss: 700 grams
Total loss: 21.8kg
Current Weight: 88.5kg

REALLY happy with that and I know I was good 'most' of the time but I reckon those yummy protein shakes really did the trick for me. I said I wanted to drop a couple of kilo's in the 2 weeks I was doing the shakes and that's exactly what I did, I lost 2kgs exactly over the 2 weeks......noice!

Got home from weigh in and Andrew had made my favourite meal at the moment with is unpronoucable (sp?) but is an indian dish that he gets the sauce from one of his dairy retailers with garlic and corriander roti and vegetable fried rice. It was really good and I enjoyed every bite.

Andrew went to Gisborne this morning with a mate to go Whitebait fishing with his Mother, she has the best spot up there and we just LOVE whitebait.

So me and the kids have a few outings planned and tonight we are going to stay with my mate Jo (who I went to Auckland with a few weeks ago) and her kids for the night as her hubby is also away. Lasagne and curry is on the menu (wierd combination I know but I had lasagne out of the freezer and she has left over curry) with a salad, so I should be able to choose wisely. Andrew's mate's wife is also coming over later on for a few wines which will be lovely.

I have a Hen's night on Friday night for a dear friend (her 2nd marriage) who I work with and I am also looking forward to that as we are meeting at my sister's (its also her best friend) and starting with a few drinks and the 'naughty' presents and then moving onto the Workingmens Club (Yes yes I know, nana's!) for dinner and some dancing. I have decided to drive (less hassle) so will be partaking in one wine and then heaps of water (drunk through a penis straw.....LOL), and will try and get lots of photo's.

Haven't heard from Leenie today but will be ringing soon to see how she is getting on. Ta ta for now.

Helena Update

Hi guys and gals, just to let you know that Helena has come through the op wonderfully and even had something to eat last night.

Craig's text to me last night:

Hulo craig here, leenie is awake and starving she is feeling quite narrow she is happy and chatty

How cool is that!! If you pop over to her blog, her hubby (Craig) has updated and will hopefully update again today.

Protein shakes:
I am feeling 100% better today and have been having my protein shakes and drinking loads of water.

Had a nice hot bath when I got home and jumped into bed and read my book which I bought at the Spring Fair on the weekend (Watermelon by Marian Keyes).


**********GUESS WHAT??????????**********

Helena just txt me as I was typing this update to tell me that the Doc took off 9.8kgs (500g with lipo) and because she weighed in at 102kgs on the hospital scales, she now weighs womewhere in the region of 92-93kgs.............*sqeals with delight*, she is SO HAPPY and is up brushing her hair and teeth......wahoo!

Oh Oh another 'guess what'??

I've just spoken to her on the phone and she is feeling fantastic, eaten twice and been up and about. The nurses and doctor are totally amazed that she is doing so much and said she could more than likely go home tomorrow (originally it was to be Thursday). She has been taken off the 'hard' drugs and is now just on one pain killer and panadol.....wow!

Right I've been gas bagging to her and typing this for the last hour so I'd better get some work done me thinks....

Healthy to very unhealthy

Last week I was ON FIRE! I was doing my shakes, feeling great, getting a little exercise, drinking ALL my water plus some and just generally feeling fantastic.

This week.............disaster!.

Saturday

Spring fair, decided I would eat when I got home but ran late and didn't get home until after 2pm and then just started getting the food ready for the BBQ with our friends who were arriving at 5pm.

I then proceeded to make the salad's for dinner and kept popping things in my mouth that I usually never do. Now you would think alarm bells would be going off right about now but NOooooooooooo, onto the mango philly cheese with crackers and dip and don't forget the packet of chippies that I taste tested while Andrew went and picked up our guests.

I then ate 3 BBQ'ed sausages (not on the plan) and half a loaf of garlic bread (not good) a large piece of steak and minimal salad......WTF? I then proceeded to ice the chocolate eclairs and make the fruit salad and put the marshmellows out and had a huge bowl with everything in it???????

I'm sure the 2 bottles of wine did nothing to help me either.....*sigh*

I then got up Sunday morning and made Andrew his 'Father's Day' big breakfast as well as giving the boys eggs on toast and I just had 1 piece of toast (all good). When Andrew left for golf I then found my way to the pantry and ate half a bag of left over chips and 3 more sausages out of the fridge. I then made the boys lunch and had 3 sandwiches (yes 3) with vegemite and cheese on them. I had had no water for over 24 hours but about 6 coffee's.

This was about the time I started to feel really sick and bloated and had to think of what to make for dinner for Dad and Andrew (Father's Day again). I ended up roasting a chicken with pom pom potato's and left over salad (there was heaps thanks to me not eating bugger all the night before) and dinner rolls.

I finally gave myself a talking to and had a shake and was quite satisfied and not hungry so I sat at the table with the family while they ate tea (no promblems right?......wrong) and I started picking and ended up having 2 dinner rolls with chicken and stuffing on them.

I really have NO IDEA what that was all about because 9/10 times when I ate, I wasn't hungry. I'm not due for my monthly so I can't blame that and I had good choices to make (ie salad) but chose to eat crap........I am so kicking myself today.

This morning I've had my 30g WW cereal and trim milk and a shake for lunch plus 2.5 litres of water and feel 100% better (but not back to normal) and I'm at a loss as to why I did that to myself on the weekend. Looking back, I thought maybe because I was missing my carbs (ie bread) so just went crazy which may be right but I felt horrible, sluggish, bloated afterwards and do not want to eat bread the way I use to (only a month ago).

I have weigh in tomorrow night and pretty much think I have stuffed this week up but it is also my last week of protein shakes and I think I haven't achieved what I wanted (which was to drop a bit of weight faster than I usually do) but I will wait and see what the results are tomorrow night.

I don't think I will give the shakes away completely as I really rate them as far as stopping me snacking (ignore this past weekend) and really filling me up, so I might have one or two a week when I don't have time to eat properly.

OK, this is a horrible negative post and I just HATE being negative and down on myself but I can't hide from what I did and I have left this post to really late in the day (which isn't like me) because I didn't want to post what a bad weekend I'd had but then decided that I wanted to be honest and you guys need to know that there is good and bad weeks (no suprise to anyone I bet) and I have to face up to it rather than hide from it.

Rant over.......

On a brighter note, Leenie is in for her op today and I'm busting to hear from her hubby about how it all went (hurry up Craig!).

Protein shake - Day 9

Still going strong and feeling GREAT.

Food yesterday:

Breakfast: WW cereal and yoghurt
Lunch: small packet of sushi (hubby bought it into work for me.....ohhhhh)
Dinner: berry shake and grapes

Snacks: 1 mini packet of sakata crackers (10 in each packet - 1 point)
Water: 4 litres

I have also been having 3 coffee's a day which is one more than I had planned but still think 3 is better than the 6 or 8 I usually have.
My carbs have been nearly non-existent and I haven't had bread in 9 days and feel fantastic for it.

I have the most annoying tickle in my throat which hasn't turned into anything (like a cold etc) but it is driving me crazy and the only thing that gets rid of it for a little while is gallons of water, hence my 4 litres yesterday. So really the negative of having the tickle has turned into a positive because I'm drinking my water without even thinking about it......LOL

Saturday I will be down at the fruit and vege market early and then going to get my hair cut and coloured (it sooooooo needs it) and then I'm off to have a look around the Upper Hutt Spring Fair. It is always a lovely fair and that's where I usually get Andrew and Dad's father's day presents. I'm also meeting a friend afterwards at a coffee shop up there to have a coffee and watch the people walking up and down the street (its a yearly thing we do - weird aye?).

We have a few friends coming over on Saturday night and we are going to try and have a BBQ, I'm hoping the weather is wrong (forecast is rain) because there will be 4+ kids and I want them outside as we only have a tiny house plus I don't want hubby to get too wet while cooking the BBQ.....hahaha.
I actually chose what we were going to have because I was trying to think of something that the adults AND kids will eat and a BBQ is meat and salad which will be easier to prepare and be excellent for my eating plan.

Sunday being fathers day, Andrew will get his BIG BREAKFAST with all the trimmings and then he and Dad are off to golf for most of the day and I will have a BIG ROAST DINNER for when they get home, so most of my day will be taken up cooking, cleaning up and cooking again (I'm such a good wifey).

I won't be around tomorrow as I have a full day course (Industrial Medic) and won't get to my computer, so I'll catch you all next week.......have a good one.

Weigh in

Lost: 1.3kg
Total loss: 21.1kg
Current Weight 89.2kg

Gotta love that and gotta love those shakes…………yeah baby!

Really please with that result and I am feeling so much better having lost that 1.3kgs.
I will stay on the shakes for another week and aim to lose the same if not more as I have given myself a kick in the butt about not exercising and have every intention of getting on that bike and walking this week. NO MORE EXCUSES!

My water has been brilliant (2.5 – 3.5 litres per day) and my food has been awesome, last night hubby made me a beautiful beef stir fry and won’t tell me the marinade/sauce he made it with (proberly because he can’t remember) as it was his own recipe.

I also got a really cool cookbook from WW last night as a “sorry you couldn’t weigh in last week because we didn’t have a key” and it has some really quick simple recipes in it. I have flagged about 3 or 4 I want to make straight away so when I do (if they are any good) I will post them on here with points value etc.

Righto, since I’ve been at work for 40 minutes best I go and do something – bye

I feel good.....da nah nah nah nah nah nah

Yep Tuesday morning and I am feeling awesome.
I have had a relatively good week with food/water/exercise and I feel heaps better for it. The shakes are still amazing me as far as flavour and how effective they are. I was saying to Helena on the weekend that I have set morning/lunch/afternoon tea at work and usually when that time arrives I am hunting for food because I am hungry but since being on the shakes, I haven't felt hungry (I'm not eating morning or afternoon tea) which amazes me no end.

Yesterday was a bit of a challenge as it was hubby's birthday and the kids wanted 'party' food and the old man wanted an ice-cream cake (healthly food - I think NOT!). So I did a huge bacon and egg pie and little party pies (mini savories) with fairy bread (kids love it).

That's what everyone had and I had (wait for it)..........cereal and yoghurt...hahahaha got I'm boring. So that was the 2nd time I had cereal and yoghurt yesterday (also had it for breakfast) but I really love it and it fills me up.

We also had friends (and my Dad) around to 'cut the cake' and we all had a piece. Now I have NEVER been an ice cream girl because the creaminess of the ice cream give's me reflux and I suffer for it but thought I would chance it as it was something I haven't had for years and guess what? MAJOR REFLUX all night (will I ever learn) so I was really peeved that I suffered for one little indulgence but it did give me resolve not to touch the bloody stuff again.

I also get reflux from pastry (hence no bacon & egg pie) mince and chops do it to me as well (fat content) so luckily for me I can quite easily stay away from this stuff 99% of the time.

God I ramble............

OK, weigh in tonight and I will be happy with whatever the scale gods bestow on me. I have no magic figure in my head of what I expect or anything, just a loss will be fine. Until tomorrow :)

Sunny Wellington Weekend

What a fabulous sunny, warm (not hot yet) weekend we had here in the capital.

Andrew went to golf so the boys and I thought about what we wanted to do and when I asked them if they wanted to go to the park or the Warehouse they chose the Warehouse.....hahahaha shopaholic's like their Mother (so proud *tear*).
Didn't really get anything, just went for a wander.

Saturday night we went to Lonestar for dinner (finally) and it was well worth the wait. I had heard the meals were huge so Andrew and I decided to share an entree (guacomole) and we didn't finish it as we really wanted to 'save' ourselves for the main. I had ordered the chicken breasts that were stuffed with mushrooms and other yummy stuff and then crumbed with a lovely mushroom sauce and Andrew got the stuffed pork and both came with roasted potato's and coleslaw (the coleslaw was amazing). So I ended up with 2 chicken breasts which blew me away and the only thing I managed to finish was the coleslaw and most of the chicken but I stayed away from the potato's (only a few) and Andrew also only got through about 3/4 before he admitted defeat. When asked for if we wanted the dessert menu we both said "yes please" and when we looked at it we decided there was NO WAY we could eat anything more.....LOL

BEAUTIFUL!! Really enjoyed it and can recommend it for a really good meal but be warned they are MAN size meals plus.

Wandered over the the Michael Fowler Centre and had a coffee/beer in the bar there and waited for the Tony Orlando show (he sings tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree - I kid you not!) which was Andrew's birthday present (he is 38 today) and I was DRAGGED along. He was a good performer and the band was brilliant but it really wasn't my sort of music, Andrew loved it and actually got up and danced to one song with all the other oldies......LOL The people next to us told us we were too young to be there and we were actually the youngest people there.

Sunday was breakfast/brunch with the girls (Janene, Chris H, Sue, Jenny, Anne, Jo & Rose) to have a last cuppa with Helena before she goes in for her op and it was excellent catching up with these women. It amazes me that we are all so different and come from different places but we all get on REALLY well.
We then headed in to the Women's Expo (minus Jo and Rose) for a wander around for a couple of hours and I really enjoyed it. I haven't been over to Chris H's blog this morning but I bet there are some fab photo's.
Grabbed a takeaway coffee (thanks again Sue) and headed up to Sue's apartment in town which was gorgeous.

Home by 3.30pm.........brilliant!

Sat down with the boys for a couple of hours and made birthday cards for Andrew with my card making stuff. Heaps of fun and they couldn't wait to give them to their Dad this morning (5.45am).

Protein shakes - I had two shakes on Friday and a lovely salad for dinner with a corner of Andrew's steak.
Saturday I had one shake for lunch (cereal & yoghurt for breakfast) and then Lonestar for dinner.
Sunday I had a shake in the morning before we left and then muesli, fruit and yoghurt with the girls at brunch and then a handful of raw cashew nuts when I got home and corned beef and salad for dinner.

Back into it today.....

Protein shake - day 2

i think I will record what I have eaten and whatnot so I can look back at it in future.

Hubby has decided that since I don't like the chocolate shake, he will have it and has found that he isn't snacking after dinner (he still eats 3 meals a day + the shake) which he thinks is great.

Breakfast: Berry shake
Lunch: 8x vitaweats with vegemite, grapes
Dinner: Vegetable stir fry and berry shake
Water: 3 litres

Great day I think and I wasn't hungry once! I even left some of my vege stir fry (unheard of) because I stopped and thought about if I was hungry rather than showelling it down my throat until it was finished.

Had a phone call from Adam's daycare yesterday morning to say he had fallen off the trampoline rebounder and cut his head (not enough for stitches) and they thought we needed to take him to the doctors to see if there was any real damage done. As Andrew was in the area, he went and got him and I got a phone call on the way to the doctors (from Andrew's car) from Adam saying "I got a cool hole in my head Mum"....LOL he is so different to my oldest who would have cried for a month.

Got checked out - all OK, back to daycare after his Daddy took him to McDonald's for lunch.

Went and got the grocery shopping after work and I have managed to get it down to $400.00 for a months worth and then I just top it up the other weeks. That doesn't include fruit and vege's which I have been getting from the Riverbank market we have here on a Saturday morning which usually costs me about $35.00 a week. So all up I am only spending $160.00 a week on groceries for a family of 4 which I reckon is bloody good. In days gone by when I use to shop weekly, I could spend about $250 - $300 easily. Mind you now the kids don't have nappies and formula that has saved heaps.

Even if I can say $10 a week that is $10 towards my spending money when I go to Aussie in January so I can buy CLOTHES.

Shake, shake, shake.......

Day 1 - done and dusted!

Breakfast - Berry shake.......yummo!
Lunch - WW cereal with yoghurt and some green and red grapes for lunch......yum.
Dinner - Mesculin salad leaves, cucumber, spring onion, red and green capcicum's, 60g shaved ham and a sprinkle of Lite Italian dressing......yum AND a chocolate shake (not so yum - I'm not a chocolate girl).
Water: 2.5litres

I usually get peckish about 9pm and last night I was shocked to see it was 9.45pm and I was thinking of going to bed and I hadn't even thought of food (gotta love that).

Was suppose to do my ironing and exercise bike last night BUT (here comes the excuse) it was SO COLD so I cuddled up to my husband on the floor in front of the fire watching mindless TV.

Feeling GREAT, chat tomorrow - Bye *waves*

Weigh in ..... NOT!

No weigh in this week as the leader and the weigher didn't pick up the key because another girl does BUT she didn't turn up, so after 15 minutes of waiting in the cold we all left and were told we would have a FREE meeting next week.

Anyway I went straight home and jumped on my scales which said 90.8kg which are 300g difference from the WW scales which means I stayed the same (I think), so I'm going with that.

Got up this morning and prepared my food/shakes for the day and drank my 1st cup of coffee with trim milk and sweetner (only having 2 coffee's a day).

Breakfast will be a berry shake
Lunch will be WW cereal (I love this stuff) with fruit (grapes)
Dinner will be another shake (chocolate this time) with a salad.

See how we go......

Protein Shakes

Yep I'm gunna try the ole protein shakes.

I feel I need to get back into the swing of things and drop a couple of kilo's to get my head back in the right place and I am doing my usual thing which is trying to not put on weight rather than trying to lose weight.

So I am weighing in tonight and starting the protein shakes tomorrow. I have also gone out and gotten some low GI fruits which I will have with my protein shake and then limit my evening meal to a small amount of protein and lots of either steamed vege's or salad. I am going completely cold turkey with all carbs (bread, potoato's, pasta, rice etc) and lowering my dairy intake as well as cutting out all alcohol.

I will do this for 2 weeks only as I know it isn't sustainable long term and I don't want to be substituting my meals for shakes as I really enjoy food but I need to get some control back as my portions are getting bigger and I am picking HEAPS more because I think I'm hungry and I'M NOT!

LET THE SHAKES BEGIN....................

On other totally unrelated news, I had a lovely weekend which started with me up and out of the house at 7.30am to the Hutt to get my fruit and vege's and then back to pick up the hubby, father and kids and get down to soccer which we discovered was cancelled when we got there (I really need to listen to the radio in the mornings).

Helena came around for a coffee and we talked non stop (as we do) for a couple of hours (thanks mate, love your visits).

Then got the thomas the tank engine train tracks etc out and built a massive track in the loungeroom which the kids thought was 'cool'.

Saturday night we had one of Andrew's friends come around for a couple of hours to visit.

Sunday - Totally Mum and the boys!!
Went to the warehouse and got one of Reece's mates a present for his birthday next week then asked them what they wanted to do and they wanted to 'go visit people'......hahaha social little butterflies just like their mother.
We ended up at my eldest sisters for banana piklets (yep I had 3) and muffins (didn't have any muffins) then went to another friends where it was just coffee and the kids ran around for a couple of hours........nice.

Got home just before Andrew came home from golf, cooked an easy dinner (eggs on toast for the boys with sausages) and I had a vegetable stir fry.

NO ALCOHOL, what a bugger!

Kids weekend

Well as the title suggests, it is going to be a kids weekend. Seeing as I have spent the last two weekend's away I want to spend some time with the boys.
I have a funny feeling soccer won't be on tomorrow if the forecast is correct (yay!) so I will get out all their Thomas trains, lego, colouring books etc and just have a games weekend.

I have the wonderful Helena visiting me tomorrow for a coffee and that's about it as far as visitors go.

Yesterday I went to Mitre 10 Mega with Jo (birthday girl) for our usual chicken salad (creatures of habit) and treated myself to a triple chocolate brownie....hehehe. I figured that since I had a TRIM latte and a chicken salad, I needed to balance that out with something sweet and yummy with yoghurt on the side of course....LOL.

Drank all my water yesterday (3 litres) and finished the day off with Lasagne and salad for dinner.

Tonight I am popping into a girlfriends after work for a coffee and catchup and then home to a cooked dinner hopefully (Andrew is at home today).

Right that is my exciting life, hope everyone has a fab weekend and I'll catch you all on Monday.

Weigh in

Lost: 300g
Total Loss: 19.8kg
Current Weight: 90.5kg

SO not complaining about THAT!!

I'm hoping my weekend doesn't catch up with me next week but for now I am rapt with a loss.

I've been mulling over weather to do The Ultimate Cleanse that Lyn is currently doing because I have been feeling very sluggish and yuk and a good ole clean out sounds like the ticket. I must admit I am a bit scared at the limited amount you can eat and I am watching and waiting to see how Lyn does (sorry Lyn) before jumping in.

Here is the link in case anyone is interested in what I'm talking about.

I'm hoping to take Jo out for her birthday tomorrow if she's available (such a busy girl that one....LOL) and the darling Helena is coming to visit me for a coffee and gasbag on Saturday so two things to look forward to this week.
That reminds me, I'd better email Jo and see if she's still on for Mitre 10 (of course).

Auckland weekend

*UPDATE*

In case you missed it in the post below, I ate very high in fat foods. I didn't make good choices when out and the only liquid I drank was coffee and wine (+ 1 margarita) which means I didn't drink any water apart from the glass I had Sunday morning with a berroca added.

I didn't once think about it, I ate and drank what I wanted, I had a fabulous time but know THAT'S IT now. I have had 2 weekends away and I am ultimately going to pay for this one on the scales this week (like I did with last week) but I don't mind as I had a blast.

BUT - today is Monday and I am back into it. My bowl of cereal this morning was the best thing every and I have had 2 litres of water already and feel fantastic.

OK, original post below

PEACE OUT ;0)



HAD A FANTASTIC TIME
LOVE AUCKLAND

Jo and I arrived Friday (lunch time) and hit the shops on K'Rd and Queens St, didn't buy anything apart from food (panini and coffee) but got in a few hours and were truely amazed at some of the sights (people, fashion).
Jax arrived at about 6.30pm and we downed a bottle of wine (or two) and nibbled on cheese and crackers then headed out to Thai for dinner and again ended up looking at the sites on K'Rd (boy/girls with REALLY high heels and sleezy pubs and young boys hugging in the streets.....very sad some of it).

HOME BY 10.30pm...............LOL nana's.

Saturday we were all awake at 6.45am (WTF???) so got up, had a coffee and some panadol and berroca and chatted until about 9am and then headed to a nice cafe on Ponsonby road. I had corn fritters with bacon and mushrooms which was devine.
Headed to St Lukes Mall as we all prefer malls to street shopping and I managed to get a really funky top (in picture to follow) and I loved it but did feel like I had stepped out of an Austin Powers movie (groovy baby) and of course a nice new bra to go with it. We walked around that mall for nearly 6 hours and all got nice new clothes and Jo and I went for a pedicure (forgot we had sneakers on and walked around for an hour with no shoes.....hehehe thank god we didn't know anyone) and Jax got a head and neck massage.

Grabbed some sushi and went home and did the showers, make up and manicure (I have a kit) and got stuck into the cheese and crackers and wine again (I know, I know).
Headed out about 8.30pm to a really nice Mexican restaurant (we just got mains - I had a burrito thing with HEAPS of salad) and I had my very first Magarita (average).
We then headed to a bar/nightclub called Booey Wonderland (we have one in Wgtn as well) and it was OK but there were lots of smelly people (BO) and I HATE that so we mainly watched the goings on and then cabbed it home about 12.30am (better effort).

Sunday morning Jo had to leave on an early flight so we waved her goodbye and then headed down to the Viaduct harbour for breakfast at a place called Mecca which was beautiful and I managed to eat the Mecca Big Breakfast and two Bowls of trim latte.

We had parked about 500 metres away from the viaduct because we weren't paying $18.00 for an hours parking (I kid you not) and as we left the skies opened up and we got soaked and I mean soaked. Luckily we had checked-out of our hotel so all our clothes were in our bags in the car, so we high tailed it to Sylvia Park shopping mall and got changed in the carpark (the hair was a no go) before spending a few hours there (Thai again for lunch) and then heading towards the Auckland airport but having to stop at Manukau shopping mall.

Got to the airport at 3.15pm as I had to check-in at 3.30pm for my 4pm flight and was then told the flight was delayed until 5.10pm....gggrrrrr! We ended up leaving Auckland at 5.40pm and got in at Wellington at 6.40pm. The kids (who had driven their father mental all weekend *giggle* were all excited (as they had been at the airport for hours) and very tired as they hadn't eaten dinner so it was a quick trip to McDonalds on the way home (god I love Boss burgers) and walked in the door at 8pm last night.

FULL ON WEEKEND but BRILLIANT - Excellent company and just fun, fun, fun.

Unfortunately I kept forgetting to take my camera OUT with me but I managed to get a couple of shots of the girls and I in our room.



Me, Jax and Jo



Me trying to get a close up so you can see the cool top I bought......groovey!



Me and Jax (love her top as well)



Jo and Jax (Awesome chic's)

Weigh in

GAIN: 900 grams (no suprise there)
Total loss: 19.5kg (back under the 20kg...grrr!)
Current weight: 90.8kg (back over the 90kgs...grrr!)

Oh well can't do much about that and to tell the truth I'm really not concerned that much because I had an awesome time at Chris's and didn't think of my weight AT ALL or what was going into my mouth (food or drink) which is quite weird considering it was a bloggers get together.

I've built my bridge and am OVER IT! Roll on next week.

I have such a massive weekend planned I feel like I'm going to pee myself everytime I think of it (TMI??).

I'm going away with my 2 best mates, one from here in Wellington and one from Whangarei (use to live in the same street a couple of years ago) and we haven't been together for years. We have all got the same sense of humour and get on like sisters and we have finally got a weekend that we can all get together and just have fun. FUN will consist of staying at a nice hotel on Ponsonby Road in Auckland, shopping, drinking (lots of water and alcohol), eating (cafe's and restaurants for 3 days), shopping, chatting and shopping (did I already say that?).

All I really want to buy is a really good bra, you know the kind that sits you up as well as pushes everything together in a 'oh so sexy' 20 year old perky way that is also pretty (not conventional and ugly). I need this to go with two of my tops I got from Chris's party.
I also need a nice pair of flat casual shoes for the top and pants I got from ezibuy while also away in Palmy on the weekend. So that is my two priorities and then anything else I can find will be a bonus.

I love 3 days weekends...........

Plan for the rest of the week is to get my work here (work) up to date so I don't come back with a pile to do as well as get my house cleaned and a meal or two cooked for the boys on the weekend or they will live on takeaways (breakfast, lunch and dinner) even though they won't tell me that.

Blogger Mid Winter Xmas party!

Well where do I start?


Saturday I was up nice and early and down to soccer I went with the kids and they won which was a rare event and Reece scored 2 goals for his team and one for their team...hahaha (He is second from the left).



Then raced home and had a shower, bumped my bags in the car (which I'd packed the night before) and shot off to pick up Helena.

Gas bagged all the way to Palmy and couldn't believe we got there so quickly, shot to New World to get some supplies and arrived about 2.30pm.

Lyn, Lee-anne, ChubbyMum, ChubbyDad, Janene and Felicity were already there and drinking so Helena and I quickly got ourselves settled and the gabfest started.

Helena made a comment in her blog saying that apart from us eating the yummy dinner Chris and Stew put on, there wasn't a moment's silence. Everyone got on really well and I felt really comfortable with everyone.
Lynise turned up a bit later and she also just sat down and started chatting with everyone like we had known each other for ages (which really we have in a weird kind of way).
The Christmas present opening was hilarious and everyone got into the spirit of things.

ChubbyMum and Dad I have already met and just LOVED seeing them again.
Lynise was gorgeous and really bubbly.
Chris is of course the hostess with the mostess and made us all feel at home.
Janene was the life of the party and got us all up dancing (thanks for that sweets).
Felicity was a really down to earth lovely person and I really enjoyed meeting her.
Lyn had the best sense of humour and kept us all entertained with her games (ie. how looks and sounds like their blogs).
Lee-anne was really lovely and I felt really comfortable talking to her.
Helena is gorgeous and funny and the 'dancing queen' on the dance floor.
Stew (Chris's hubby) was amazing and cooked for us and then cleaned everything up the next morning (WHAT A MAN!) and was such a giggle when we were opening our Xmas presents.

Got drunk (no suprise there) but also drank 3 litres of water during the course of the night which REALLY helped with the head the following morning.
Had an excellent time jumping on Chris's computer with the girls and leaving comments (which I had to read the following morning to remember what I wrote).

Anyway here are some photo's in no particular order.

Chris (our wonderful hostess)




Chris & Helena the morning after




Felicity (our new grandma)




Helena




Janene (trying to hide through a transparent cup) and ChubbyMum



Me cracking up at Helena's Xmas present (a box with $5.00 in it)




Lee-anne




Lyn




Lynise




Group photo of us all





We did the clothes swap thing (I got 4 great tops and 1 pair of ¾ jeans) and then headed for bed at 11pm…………….pack of nanna’s we are!

Had the best sleep in Brylee’s room (thanks Brylee for giving us your room) and then grabbed a coffee before saying goodby to Chris and Stew (and kids) and headed to Ezibuy for a coffee with ChubbyMum and Dad and Felicity and then SHOPPED but only managed to find 1 pair of brown ¾ cargo sort of pants and a lime green long sleeved top (they look good together).
Dropped Felicity back at Chris’s house and off we went back to Wellington.
Got home about 2.30pm I think and got into my housework as the place looked like a tip. Managed to sit down about 9.30pm last night…………..*sigh*

I had an amazing time and I just loved meeting all you ladies, you were wonderful and I feel like when I read your posts now I will really be able to picture how you say things now which will be totally different.

A BIG THANK YOU to Chris and Stew for opening their beautiful big home to us all.

P.S. I don’t know who brought what but all the food was delicious and when I put on weight this week because I just HAD to have a bit of everything, I’m blaming ALL OF YOU!!!!!! Nah just joking.

Social events

Well I have been eating healthy and drinking my water for the last couple of days but not exercising (that's going to bite me in the butt eh?).

The next couple of days is going to be a challenge.

It is 11.40am at the moment (Friday)and I have a half day today.

First on the agenda is lunch with a girlfriend, then into Westfields shopping centre to get my eyebrow's waxed and then go and get some booze for Chris's party and finally a meeting with Reece's teacher at 3pm .. phew! Somewhere in there I have to dye my mow (oh yes I do) and shave everything...LOL.

Tonight I'm going to get some groceries for the boys on the weekend as I am out of everything and also go and get my fruit and vege's at the river bank markets tomorrow morning, followed by Reece's soccer at 10am and get to Helena's before 12.00 to pick her up and shot up to Palmy for the Mid Winter Xmas party...yeeha!

I intend to be a little social butterfly at the party and get to know EVERYONE while drinking lots and eating little.....hehehehe.
Crash in Chris's recently redecorated spare room and then drag Helena and I back to Wellington sometime on Sunday.

I am already stressing that I am going to forget the camera or xmas pies or present or booze (god forbid!) or a nightie......Yes I can be a stress cadet sometimes.

SEE YOU ALL (who are going) TOMORROW - Woohoo

Weigh in

Gain: 500g
Total loss: 20.4kg
Current weight: 89.9kg

Unfortunately that was expected so I can moan and groan about it. I figure with last weeks huge loss and this weeks gain, I have still lost 2.1kgs in 2 weeks so I'm not complaining.

Not much happening here today, rang Leenie and arranged our travel plans for Saturday. We are going to leave at 12.00 noon so I can go to Reece's soccer in the morning as I am also the Team Manager, so we should get to Chris's about 2.30pm - 3pm?.

Didn't get on my bike last night as I was stuffed once I got home from weigh in and went into Mummy/housewife mode. There was also a programme on that I wanted to watch last night (The Rich list) so when that finished I toddled off to bed.

Profile photo

Can anyone see my profile photo because I have been fiddling with my blog (adding a ticker and stuff) and now when I look at my site, I can't see it.

Went home and made a yummy chicken and fresh vege stir fry for dinner and then jumped on my bike for 30 minutes and went for it, jumped off (jelly legs) and drank a litre and a half of water in about 10 seconds.

Felt fantastic!

Weigh in tonight and I am just hoping to stay UNDER 90kg's for the week after my blow out on Sunday. Will let you know in the morning.

Going home to sort my wardrobe out tonight and get out all my clothes and take a heap up to Chris's on Saturday for a swapsy section hopefully. I have one of those wardrobes where I buy something really nice, wear it once and when I go to wear it again it doesn't fit.

Talk to ya tomorrow, cherrio.

Kid's birthday parties.

BAD BAD BAD day yesterday a Reece and Adam's friends birthday party, sausage rolls, savouries, cake - the list goes on. Bugger really as I had been on track all week.

Good ole MONDAY and I am back into it..........I love the routine that work gives me.

Didn't get on my bike all weekend either or any other exercise come to think of it, back on that bike tonight.

Got a phone call from my hairdresser Saturday morning while I was at Reece's soccer game asking where I was - BUGGER!!! it will now take another month to get in to see her and I wanted to look all glam and gorgeous for Chris's party this weekend....oh well.

Speaking of Chris's party, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited, I am making mini Xmas mince pies (Wed night) which are my mother's recipe. The secret really is just add HEAPS of booze. I use either sherry or brandy but I think I'm out of both so I will have to visit the supermarket after work as I want to make them no later than Wednesday. I bought my gift a few weeks ago but I don't think it is very unisex, more girlie but I'm just hoping like crazy a girl picks it or the man who picks it will just have to give it to their lady as a present.....hahaha.

Can't decide what to drink?? Bourbon will make me last longer but give me indigestion but we all know how quickly I get sloshed on wine, oh the dilema. I'm just hoping everyone gets to see the nice sober Rachel before the pathetic loveable Rachel comes out (and then promptly falls asleep).

Cycle Girl

I managed 28 minutes on my bike last night which is a major improvement of 7 minutes only 2 weeks ago. That 28 minutes is also peddling at a good pace as well so I got off sweating and red cheeked...........lovely!

That reminds me, I really need to update my music on my MP3 player.

Had another great day with eating and water and exercise yesterday but did feel very bloated and yuk which I have no idea why but I'm glad to report that today I'm feeling great again.

A friend of ours who owns a farm bought around a sheep (yep a whole sheep) the other night and after bagging it all up etc I left out some chops for Andrew to have last night which I just marinated in some soy sauce and garlic and slow baked them.
I had a seafood risotto WW meal (my favourite) and made a huge salad for both of us (no potato's for him) and we really enjoyed it.

Salad consisted of:

Mesculin salad leaves
Iceberg lettuce leaves
Red onion
Feta Cheese (tiny bit crumbled)
Sundried tomato's
Sprinkled with sea salt and cracked black peppercorns
Lightly splashed with lemon juice

There was also nothing on TV last night (same as every other night really) so once the kids went to bed I did the bike and then scrubbed my bathroom from head to toe and got a better workout in there then I did on my bike.......hahahaha.

Got to bed at 9.30pm and woke up feeling fantastic this morning, jumped on the scales (daily weigher) and it read 89.9kgs....WTF???? I was 89.4kg on Tuesday *shrug* but as I am a daily weigher I know how the numbers can be totally wrong 5 out of 7 days, so I am just going to carry on my merry way and see what next Tuesday brings.

I love it when I am doing all the right things and feel great.

Sunny days

Its such a nice sunny day today that I feel like I should be out in it rather than sitting behind a desk feeling unmotivated (about work) and having everything pile up.

Went to the doctors with hubby last night and she was telling him he has to change his diet and start eating more fruit and vegetables and less carbs (he's such a meat and mashed potato man) and exercise more to which I said (I just couldn't help myself) "You can start eating what I do dear and go for a walk with me"....hehehe god I'm a bitch but I couldn't let that opportunity get away. I always offer him what I am eating and he usually refuses and instead of going for my stir fry, goes for chops and mashed potato with peas and corn (or something boring like that) but not anymore....LOL.

Right Doctor story finished.

I am feeling bloated and yuck today for some reason. I have drank 2.5 litres of water so far (2.05pm) and had my usual WW cereal for breakfast, 1 coffee and a corned beef and salad sandwhich for lunch plus 1 banana but feel blar....

Ummmmmmm what else.........dunno.
I'm just avoiding work because I'm really not in the mood but since I don't have anything to say, I think I'll go read some blogs...*waves*

Weigh in

Lost: 2.6kgs (Biggest loss ever)
Total loss: 20.6kgs (20kg loss major goal hit) = Reward
Current weight: 89.4kgs (80's girl goal hit) = Reward

Well well well isn't THAT something?

Yeah yeah I know I threw up for a 24 hour period over the week that has taken a big chunk of that but 'come on' surely my water, food and exercise has got to have had some effect.....hehehehe. I am SO happy that I hit 2 major goals in one week.

I am rewarding my efforts with an overdue eyebrow waxing and a new face and eye cream and I may throw in a lipstick for good measure.

I'm sure I had other interesting thing to share with you but I just can't think of them right now.

Back to normal

All better now.......thank god.

Andrew has now got the bug and is in bed for the day, so his theory of sleeping on the couch while I was sick (more like so he could watch the golf all night) didn't work.

So the kids and I are back in form and hubby should be OK this time tomorrow, the world will come to an end before then I'm sure just because he is sick *wink*.

I have been really good with my steps and have hit 4000 by lunchtime today which is great considering I have a desk job and I got on the exercise bike again last night.

ThingsI have made an effort NOT to do this week is eat hot chips for lunch (I don't buy them but my friends do and I always pick) and no lollies (we have to stop at the gatehouse on our way back to work and the guard always has a full lolly jar) so this has got to help with my daily points and I'm not so sluggish after lunch (go figure!).

I have kept active and I can honestly say I don't think I have watched any TV this week apart from the bits and pieces of the news.

Overall I am feeling positive and have had quite a few compliments this week for some reason (losing 2.4kgs in one day with illness had to help....hahaha) which always keeps me focussed.

I am also seeing the effects of my efforts rub off on the kids in particular. If I am not watching TV and doing something else, they tend to do the same thing and instead of turning the TV on at all they will play with their lego or ride their bikes (weather permitting) so the whole family is feeling more active.

Tonight is weigh in and I don't have anything organised for dinner (I always eat dinner after I get back from weigh in - surprise, surprise!) and since hubby isn't going to feel like anything I thought I would treat me and the kids and have some takeaways (ie. McD's for the kids and subway for me) which will be nice and easy.

Be back in the morning with my weigh in results - I'm thinking it will be a big one with all the above factors (fingers crossed).

The easiest way to lose weight

DON'T EAT and either throw or poo everything else out.

Yep I got that horrid vomitting/diahorrea bug off the kids after having Friday off work with Reece (Adam had it Wednesday). Luckily the kids didn't get it half as bad as me and only really had the vomitting and slept all day but me.....WHOA I have never spent so much time in our toilet in one day.

I weighed myself in the morning about 7am (as I usually do) and I was 91.3kgs and I then re-weighed myself at 7pm and I was 88.9kgs - 2.4kg's in 12 hours!!

I got a phone call later in the day to say the other lady wouldn't be at work this week so I had to drag myself in here this morning which was a major effort.
I had 2 pieces of toast yesterday morning (which came straight back up) and still haven't eaten anything and it is now Monday afternoon. I am finding it really hard to even keep liquids down but just had to have a coffee about an hour ago and so far so good.

Anyway, I know as soon as I start eating the weight will go back on but boy it actually felt good to see an 8 come up rather than a 9 last night on the scales....sick eh?

So needless to say, I haven't gotten much done since last Wednesday with two sick little boys and one sick Mummy. I have tried to keep my water and food on track (apart from yesterday and today) and got on my bike twice. The highest day for my steps (8,496) was actually on Friday (I think) one of my days off which just goes to show I do heaps more running around at home than I do here at work.

I haven't caught up with anyone's blogs or commented so sorry about that but I will get to them soon hopefully. With the other lady here at work off for a minimum of a week, I'm going to be flat tack so may not comment as often.

Be back with weigh in results on Wednesday.

Photos & Weigh in

G'day there, I'm back at work after a day off with Adam (vomitting, runs etc) but he is all honky dory now (24 hour bug).

Having a day off I finally got my camera downloaded so I will put some photo's up that are a few weeks old but never mind.

My 37th birthday cake that the kids decorated and helped make:



Andrew and I going out for dinner. Gotta admit I still hate photo's of myself because I was feeling gorgeous and 'slim' this night and nearly gagged when I seen the photo..........yeah yeah I know but that was my reaction, might be one of the reasons I'm back on track with gusto.




The boys playing with their Dad. I remember my Dad doing this to me when I was little.





I love this photo. My Mum sent the boys some books on Australian animals but didn't think to look inside before sending them and one of them had this lovely photo (sorry about the flash) of an eagle eating a dead kangaroo......LOL. The boys got such a fright when they seen the photo and now don't want to ever open that book again.




And last but not least - my bike which is all set up in the spare room but I must work on my time, last night I only managed 7 minutes!




Eating and water has been awesome and steps really need to improve as I haven't hit 6000 yet and when I was all suped up last time I was averaging 8500 on a bad day.

I went to weigh in on Tuesday night and:

GAIN: 900g
Total loss: 18.3kg
Current weight: 92.0kg

BUT

I am 100% sure I will have a good loss and lose at least the 900g I put on as I feel great and am doing the right things.

Near perfection

Had a great day yesterday.

Steps: 5309 (really bad but gives me a starting point)
Took my multi-vitamin
Food: 100%
Water: 100%
Excercise: No bike (didn't get it inside but aiming for tonight)

So I was quite pleased with my efforts even if they weren't perfect.

Things to work on today:
1. Increasing those steps
2. Lunch time walk (its not suppose to rain - fingers crossed I won't melt)
3. Get back to planned weekly meals (I don't know why I stopped this as it was working)
4. Water, water, water! (On my 2nd bottle and peeing like a trooper)

I have weigh in tonight which I am going to even though I have put on, I need to be accountable and front up. I am also still going to give myself a mini reward at the end of each week if I have stuck to my guns (ie. lipstick etc). I also still have my more major rewards for when I hit those bigger milestones.

My mind is in the right space at the moment and I am going to try everything in my power to keep it there.

Slipping

Sat down yesterday morning after getting up, going to the loo and jumping on the scales and being 1.8kgs heavier than my last weigh in (nearly 2 weeks ago) and thought about what I'm doing with myself to be putting weight back on.

I realised that nearly on a weekly basis, something is slipping. I thought back to when I started this weightloss (again) in August 2006 and what I was doing then to do so well. I was wearing my pedometer, walking heaps, counting points, taking my vitamins, drinking water and in general just being more active (especially of a night).
I am not doing ANY of these at the moment, OK I am drinking water but not nearly as much as I was a few months ago but that's it.

So today (gotta love Monday's) I put on my new pedometer I got for my birthday over a week ago, got my points books back out (not guessing), took my multi-vitamin and filled up my water bottle first thing this morning and last night I got organised (something I love being) and got the kids, dinner, lunches etc done nice and early.

The only thing I have to still work on is my exercise which I am hoping to get sorted tonight when I ask hubby to bring in my exercise bike (set up on that thing so I can use it when stationary) into the spare room as I just don't get the opportunity to exercise on my own with Andrew's work committments and the kids at the moment but if I have it at home (inside), I WILL FIT IT IN, even if it is at 11 o'clock at night once everyone is in bed.

Right, got that off my chest and I feel much better now.

Friday night was a blast and myself and the hostess got blastered while our other 2 mates were driving so they were unfortunately enough to listen to us blabbering on (at least that's how I remember it).....LOL.

Woke up with the worse hangover I've ever had (seriously) and I'm sure I only had 1 cocktail and about 1.5 bottles of wine. Thru a few panadol down my throat and then chucked the kids in the car and off we went for the day (shopping and visiting friends). Got home and had leftovers for dinner and Andrew and the boys went to bed early so I stayed up until after midnight watching 'Superhomes' on Sky TV and drinking coffee and just enjoying the peace and quiet and being on my own............bliss!

Sunday was another day to get the boys out of the house (haircuts, new shoes/clothes for the new school term) while hubby did his paperwork (poor bugger has moutains of it) and set up the spare room as an office. The kids had a TV and DVD player (in the spare room) as well as their games and stuff, so we moved that into their bedroom and even though it was wonderful having them both in bed by 7pm watching their own TV, we will definately have to watch that as I don't want them in their room constantly watching TV and not being with us.
After the a lovely roast dinner I kicked into action with my getting organised (as mentioned above) and then managed to crawl into bed about 10pm.

I love weekends with my family, even though I wanted a quiet weekend it really wasn't too bad as I was out and about but it was with the kids and they are getting really well behaved in public......hahahaha.

I have a photo post coming but it has been too cold to go into the spare room and download my photo's........soft I know - haha.

Time with the girls

Tonight I'm having 'drinkies' with some very good female friends and I am SO looking forward to it.

We are going to one of their houses and starting with drink's and a few nibbles and then we will decide if we go up to the Cossie Club or another pub in town or if its too cold we will stay there in front of the fire. Being such Nanna's I'm guessing we will stay in front of the fire which sounds good to me.

I don't have any plans for the weekend so far which is great.
Work this week has been really hectic so I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

I had a sneek peek at my scales this morning and they aren't being very nice with the numbers that appeared so I am burying my head in the sand. I am feeling very bloated and 'fat' at the moment and feel I need some decent healthly food and exercise to get me back to feeling fabulous.

I will put some effort into this weekends cooking and exercise and see how I feel on Monday.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend *waves* bye.

No weigh in last night.
No real excuse besides I was really tired and cold and didn't want to go out.

Work moan to follow:
The other lady who works with me has been off all of this week and I've just heard this morning that she may be back next Tuesday.........WTF???

The job I do is enough for nearly 2 people and now I'm having to do her job as well (some stuff just can't be left) and my boss just comes up (weak as piss) and asks if I'm OK to which I say "Well I have to be don't I?", hence the quick escape he made a few seconds after that.

I don't mind being busy because my normal day to day stuff is really busy and I don't even mind having to do her job for a day or two but anything more is just too much. She is in her late 50's and just wants to finish work and reckons she can convince her hubby to let her stop if she keeps getting sick (she has said so in so many words) but I am the one suffering as our company has said we can't get anyone else in because of 'head count', I hate that excuse 'head count'. I mean if you don't have enough people to do the job, you don't have enough people!!

Right, rant over. I'd better get back to work seeing as I am going to be here quite late tonight.

P.S. The little fella is all better (fingers crossed) and I am feeling 100% again. I'm drinking my water and feeling great.

Brrrrrrrrrrr

0.5 degree's when I left for work this morning, took me ages to defrost the car enough to drive it. I had on 6 layers of clothes........really, its THAT cold!

I had a lovely birthday (thanks for all your birthday wishes) that started with me sleeping in to 9am and then having a lovely cooked breakfast (omlette) and then Andrew and Reece taking off for a few hours (bliss!) which just left me and the little fella (who was a wee angel all day).
I ended up baking my own birthday cake with Adam and we iced it with pink icing and sprinkles (I do have pictures but haven't downloaded them yet).

My Dad babysat that night and Andrew and I went to The Cobar Restaurant and it was TO DIE FOR. Let me tell you what I had:

Bread and oils to start with (1 small bread roll)
Pumpkin and kumera soup for entree
Toasted almond, bean and mushroom risotto for main (this was devine)
Shared cheese board for dessert (I ate most of the fruit and 2 crackers with cheese)

Oh and a bottle of wine.....hehehehe

I felt I did really well with my choices and I enjoyed every mouthful.

Got home and let Dad go back to his place and then the little fella came out grizling and I took his temperature and it was 39.4.......wow poor little thing.
Got the pamol into him and sponged him down with a cool face washer which helped and then he slept with me. Unfortunately his temperature is still up and he has a runny nose and generally just miserable. Since I had time off last week for myself and time off with him the week before, it was Andrew's turn to stay home with him and Reece (who is still on school holiday's) and after a phone call from Andrew, I was told all is well and he is snuggled up on the couch with the fire going.
Boy that kid has had a hard time of it this winter.

Oh yeah, I also had my sister and brother-in-law for lunch on Sunday and I made roasted pumpkin and kumera salad with walnuts, red onions and a citris dressing plus chicken, camember (sp?) and mango chutney panini's with another feta, kiwi fruit salad............YUMMO my mouth is watering just thinking about it. She also bought homemade banana piklets with jam and cream (which I passed on) that went down a treat with the kids.

All in all a good weekend.

Birthday Girl...........

Yep on Saturday I turn 37 years old.
I'm celebrating by staying in bed Saturday morning while Andrew and the boys bake me a birthday cake and then spending the day with my family (hopefully going out weather permitting) and then Saturday night Andrew and I are going out to one of my favourite restaurants - The Cobar in Eastbourne.

Sunday I'm having my eldest sister and her hubby for lunch (to give me my pressie..hee hee) as I wanted Saturday just for us and the kids. I'm trying to think of something light and healthy for lunch that is different as sissy and her hubby have both been on Jenny Craig and are still eating really well. Any idea?

So I'm still banking on a quiet weekend, which will be lovely.

I thought I'd also mention that I'm feeling amazing! The last couple of days I have felt really good and I think it is because I have been drinking my water, getting more organised of a night (housework, lunches etc) and I have been more active and taken on something that Lee-anne said which was to wear clothes that are a bit snug which is giving me the incentive to have them NOT SNUG the next time I wear them and I think its working.

I have on my size 14 jeans (just had to say size 14 again *squeal*), which will be worn through soon, as it is winter and they are 3/4 jeans but I am wearing them to death. I also put on a really nice t-shirt with pretty light and dark pink embroided flowers on it that I got off my sister about a year ago and haven't been able to wear as it is a size XL (yep, only 1 X) and was too tight BUT when I put it on yesterday it practically fits (just a bit snug around my hips) enough so that I wore it to work today for 'casual Friday' and have had several compliments.....YAY.

So I look kinda weird as it is a cold and rainy day in Wellington today but here I am with 3/4 jeans on and a t-shirt with pretty pink flowers.........LMAO.
I don't care, as long as I feel good (and I do) that's all that matters.

Weigh in

Lost: 1.5kgs
Total loss: 19.2kgs
Current weight: 91.1kgs

See its not so bad being sick when you can register a 1.5kgs loss..........LOL

Being sick for a couple of days did help with this weeks weight loss but I'm taking it! I only have 3 days left until my birthday and hitting the 80's (my birthday challenge) isn't going to happen but I'm happy I got close. My next mini challenge is to get to the 80's in time for Chris H's Midyear Christmas party (4 weeks) :)

I have been very slack with exercise, even hydro which I love but with one thing and another (sick me, sick kids, bloody freezing etc) I have opted to go home of an evening and snuggle up in front of the fire.

I'm happy to say that for the first time in about 2 months, everyone in my house is fit and well (touch wood) and the dredged cold and flu has moved on.

As I was saying in an earlier post, I want a nice quiet weekend and so far the only thing I have planned is dinner out with hubby for my birthday and making my birthday cake with the kids on Saturday morning.

WOW this post is all over the place, I should have put bullet points in.

Okey Dokey this little vegemite has to get back to work so I will catch you all later....bye

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Photo's

Quick catchup as its the end of the day and I'm off home.

Friday - Sick, stayed home

Saturday - A bit better so I went off to Otaki for our brunch and LOVED seeing the girls and catching up (picture = me, Helena, Jenny sitting and Baby Rachel and Karen, Anne and Janene and Jorja standing). Then Helena and I just HAD to go to the Bendon Outlet store but unfortunately didn't find anything and then tried Coastlands shopping mall but again didn't find anything. Got home and Adam was grissly with a sore ear, so I dosed him with Pamol and he went off happy to play with Reece and his mate (who we had for the night for a sleepover).
Made the cake and nearly got divorsed - enough said!

Sunday - Adam's 3rd birthday party at McDonald's and he had a ball. I told everyone he loved trucks and books so he ended up with about 9 trucks and 8 or 10 books - YAY.
Dropped him off home and took off with a girlfriend and her daughters for a quick bite of lunch and shopping.
Got home, made dinner, put kids to bed..........had a mini breakdown, cleaned the tip I call my house and went to bed.

Monday - back at work

Photo's in no particular order.

Definately a day off tomorrow

Me, like many others have the dredged flu and I am feeling shite. My head is going to boil and my eyeballs hurt when I move them......REALLY.
I guess that's what you get when you sleep with a sick 5 year old two nights in a row.

I have dragged myself to work as there is some testing that has to be done and unfortunately I'm the only one who know how to do it but I intend to go straight to bed when I get home and stay there until maybe Saturday.......LOL

I, of course, have a very busy weekend coming up with Reece having a friend for a sleep over on Saturday then Adam's birthday on Sunday and my girlfriends daughter wants me to go shopping with her for her birthday Sunday afternoon.

Ok I'm going now as my fingers hurt typing.......god I'm pathetic!

Catch ya next week.

Weigh in

Lost: 200 grams
Total loss: 17.7kgs
Current weight: 92.6kgs

Wonders will never cease, I have been losing (and gaining) weight for years and I still can't work out how it all works.
So I'm very happy with that and I do actually have a bit of motivation back because I want to build on that rather than have it go back on again.

So anyway, I went to the supermarket after weigh in and got most of what I needed to make Adam's birthday cake (a train engine thing) but most of the lollies they tell you to get, you can't so I am just getting stuff that will do (hopefully). Also got the goodie bags (have lots of chocolate and lollies for those thanks to hubby the cholocate man) and will just get 1 or 2 other things to go in them. So I think I'm all ready to go for Sunday apart from getting Adam a present. I have a book for him (he loves his books) but that's all and for the life of me I can't think what else to get (such an 'in tune' Mum...LOL). I'm sure he will get more than enough presents off other people so I might wait and see.

I'll take a photo of the cake when it is done and a photo of the picture in the book so you will all be able to see what it REALLY should look like.......LMAO.

Another weekend bites the dust

What a busy girl I've been..............gotta love that.

Friday after work I went and had the ole monobrow removed.
Had friends around for a visit but I didn't touch any wine as I was saving myself for the following night.

Saturday consisted of soccer with Reece and I, Adam and Andrew have the common cold but because they are men, the world is ending *wink*.
Got home and tended to said boy and man and then off I went to get my hair cut, coloured and straightened (yes you can straighten straight hair), supermarket then home to tend to sick males and unfortunately our babysitter (Dad) was also sick with the same cold so we cancelled dinner out (pre-show) and got the kids bathed, fed, jammies and bed before Dad came in. Went and picked up our friends, downed a wine in record time just as the cab turned up. Met up with Helena and Craig (Helena looked stunning) and downed a bottle (or more) of wine while boogying to THE BEAT GIRLS!!!!
AND even though there were 4 or 5 shakers on the table, myself (and Helena) didn't touch them which my head thanked me for the next morning.

Sunday - stayed in bed until just before 9am BONUS!!! and I didn't mind that I had 2 little boys jumping all over me because my bed was warm and cosy. A friend turned up to take Reece out for the day with his kids, Andrew went to golf (never too sick for golf!), so Adam and I had a lovely day playing together and having some one on one time which doesn't happen very often.
I had 4 for dinner (friends movings away so it was a sort of farewell dinner) and adding that to our 3 adults and 2 kids in my little house, it was a very squashed noisy evening. Had a cheese and nibble board for entree (I didn't have any) and then a roast chicken with baked potato, pumpkin, parsnip, carrot and Kumera (sweet potato) which a HUGE vegetable bake. Dessert consisted of ice cream, jelly, mini elclairs and cream puffs with hot fudge sauce (only ate 2 mini eclairs).
Collapsed into bed about 10.30pm...............

Considering the social events we had on the weekend, (apart from the bowl of late night chips we all shared at the Cossie after the Beat Girls show) I think I did OK. I made sure I drank lots of water on the weekend so I'll wait and see what the results are on Tuesday night.

Back at work......YAY!

OK I LOVE my kids more than anything else in the world but when they are sick.....argh!!!!!

My baby Adam has a bad cold which keeps triggering his asthma so I stayed home with him yesterday (didn't have a choice really as he was stuck to me) and all he wanted to do was snuggle up on my lap and watch cartoons. As it was a horribly cold day, I cranked up the woodburner and turned on the TV with a blankie over us and had big cuddles which he loved (and me too) BUT if I dared tried to go to the toilet or make a coffee - World War III broke out. He would get that upset that he would have a coughing fit that would trigger his asthma so I ended up getting absolutely nothing done around the house (dinner, cleaning etc) and was busting to go to the loo most of the day..........LOL.
Glad to say he is feeling much better today so we have sent him back to daycare with a bag for his asthma medicine and cough medicine etc, I hope he's OK.

I do feel like I'm getting a break being back at work as I haven't slept well the last 2 nights (due to wee Adam) and there isn't too much work backed up with is a bonus.

Right weigh in............

Gain: 100g
Current weight: 92.8kgs
Total loss: 17.5kg

No real excuse for that apart from I haven't exercised and my eating could have been a bit better...............there's always next week *shrug*.

Here are the invites I made up for Adam's birthday, the quality isn't 100% but you get the picture. There is also a magnet on the back so people can stick them to their fridges...........clever tart that I am.

Since I've had a day off work, I'd better get back to it.....bye

YAWN

I read something on Teresa’s blog that really describe’s me:

“When you stop pushing to keep things going, there is an instant feeling of fatigue”

That’s totally me, I seem to be on the go from 5.55am in the morning until I get to be which is somewhere between 9.30pm and 11pm depending on what I’m doing (ie. Dishes, lunches etc) which means I am on the go for over 15.5 hours a day…..man no wonder I get exhausted sometimes. This time is sometimes extended when I have sick or unsettled kids like last night. I had Adam in our room 4 times during the night coughing which woke him and his brother up (Reece only came in once thankfully) and of course they come to Mummy because Daddy just tells them to go back to bed (ha, if only it was that easy!).

So basically I’m tired but I know if I slow down it will hit me and I won’t be able to get back into gear which just isn’t an option.

I really wish I had enough money to survive at home until the kids were a bit older, then I could try to get on top of things. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get done what I want done.

A perfect way to describe my life at the moment is, I feel I am standing with a huge rubber band around me and everyone (kids, husband, school, work etc) has a piece and they are all pulling on their piece of rubber band at the same time and I don’t have a piece for myself …………does that make sense?

Can you tell I’m tired……………LOL

I hate winter and the usual round of colds and coughs etc, everyone I come across at the moment isn’t well.

I’m hoping to get to Hydro tonight but Reece’s little mate Jacob has a seizure of some kind at school yesterday Reece was playing with him at the time it happened and seen it close up and freaked out a bit and wants to go and see him a.s.a.p, so if his Mum says its OK we will go to either the hospital or their house tonight.

So I’m hoping to get to WW and Hydro tonight but it’s a ‘wait and see’ at the moment because I really need to put Reece’s mind at rest about his mate.

Ok I’ve finished rambling on…….sorry guys.

Be back tomorrow :)

Fingers crossed and all that

I'm all better (touch wood), cold - gone, conjunctivities - gone, sore throat - gone, long may it continue. I reckon I've had MORE than enough sickness this year and I'm quite happy now NOT to catch anything else!

I had a great weekend, Friday night was very quite and I got home and built a fire and we watched TV before I went to bed early.

Saturday - Soccer (my boy got player of the day again - so proud!) and then I took one of the little boys home with me and we again built a fire and the 3 boys played nice most of the time. We had a farewell dinner to go to that night so I dropped the little fella off on our way and then went onto the 'do' where I was the driver, so didn't drink. Got home around 11.15pm.......not too shabby.

Sunday - Housework, washing and then I took the boys to the Warehouse so I could get some more bits and pieces for Adam's invitation (which I made - I'll post a photo tomorrow) and ended up getting 2 exercise books, heaps and heaps of stickers and a stamp pad set thingie all for about $12.00 and it kept them busy most of the afternoon.....YAY, I love the Warehouse!

All in all a busy weekend but relaxing at the same time.

My eating was excellent and my water and exercise was terrible.

I noticed on the weekend that my size 16 jeans are getting rather loose.......OMG!
I have a size 14 that I've always needed to lay on the bed to do up (you know what I mean!!!!) so I got them out to try and I didn't even have to breath in, they did up........gobsmacked! My work pants are still size 16 - 18 as my jeans are stretchy but I don't care.

Feeling great, just need to work on that exercise (story of my life).